ABSTRACT
In this book we have focused upon the twin topics of flow instability and receptivity of flow to different types of disturbances acting inside and outside the shear layer, which represent the equilibrium flow. However, the distinctive feature of this book, apart from treating linear and nonlinear receptivity, is that transition to turbulence is followed from the onset of receptivity to fully developed turbulent two-dimensional flow (as exemplified by the energy spectrum). Why should it be considered special simulating two-dimensional turbulence from the first principle, when many researchers have surmised that turbulence is three dimensional?
